Isolation and Language Change Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evide
Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a permanent
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Daniel Schreier
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Isolation and Language Change
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Isolation and Language Change
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PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LANGUAGE VARIATION
Titles include: Jonathan Marshall LANGUAGE CHANGE AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS Rethinking Social Networks Daniel Schreier ISOLATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan da Cunha English
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The study of language variation in social context, and the study of specific language communities in detail, are central to the linguistic enterprise. In this series we look for impressive first-hand fieldwork from speech communities of various kinds, analysed within a range of frameworks, quantitative and qualitative. All work reported in the series will raise important arguments about methodologies for researching language in social context, with analysis that challenges or extends current theory building.
Isolation and Language Change
Daniel Schreier
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Contemporary and Sociohistorical Evidence from Tristan da Cunha English
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